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In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company’s time and with its blessing.

Brendan Behan

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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Differences History Men
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.
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Criticism Editors Funny
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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Critics Eunuchs Themselves
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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Saint Theatre Two Years
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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Inspire Men Role Models
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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Judging Said Umpires
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Family Forgive Men Mother
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
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Determination Men Suicide
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Capital Crime Imagine Punishment
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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Cost General Living Mind War
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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Country Dublin Irish Life People
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark

In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company’s time and with its blessing.

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